St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-05
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while the Crows, who did not take part
in that massacre, were half-starved as
reward for their friendship and las Sit
ting Bull put it, cOwardice. If you want
to fare as well as we do. you must be
brave Indians and go upon the warpath,
said he. 1t is that old mistake in family
government, carried into Indian affairs,
by which the willful and bad boy gets
the best grub and the good little broth
erS go on short commons. klckerS get
favOrs from the Great Father" if they
are lazy and bloOdthirsty kickers. When
a party of the ChristianiZed Yanktons.
in their store clothes, short hair and
clean faces, visited the Cheyennes, who
appeared in long hair, paint and the cos
tune which the poet describes thus:
10. the poor Indian, whose untutored mind
Clothes him in front and leaves all bare be-
hind"
The former asked in aboriginal Won
der, ''HOw is 1t that we
GET ONLY HALF AS MUCH RATIONS ,
from the Great Father as yOu?" The
answer was, You must put on Indian
clothes, let your hair grow long, paint
your faces and go upon the war path If
You want the Great Father to smile ON
YOU" -
Another ground of discomfort with
the hitherto friendly Crows is, Col.
Hatch says, that their reservation is be-
ing so much encroached upon by the
cattlemen and :the Northern Pacific
railroad people as to crowd the Indians;
the railroad crosses the reservation, and
the company is cutting off the trees on
the reservation for fuel and building
purposes.
Another cause of trouble for the
Crows is their relation with the Black
| feet Indians in Northern Montana and
over the Dominion boundaries. The
Blackfeets would come down and steal
the ponies of the Crows, and, when the
| latter undertook to make good their
| losses by reprisalS on the stock of the
| BlackfeetS, the United States troops
would interfere and compel the return
| of the bOoty-a protection the govern
ment never extended to the property OF
| the Crows. The latter do not know OF
appreciate the fact that the Blackfeets
| can run their prey across the line into
| Manitoba, out of the jurisdiction of 0uI
| government: or. if that be the case,
! thew say the Great Fathers warriors
! should not interfere to protect the
| Blackfeet thieves. There is force in
this. from the Indians point of view
which
Is NOT AN INTERNATIONAL ONE.
DIR. McGillycuddy, formerly agent
at Pine Ridge, when asked for the
reasons that might cause an Indian up
rising, corroborated the above as pro
yOking causes.
"Do you think there is danger of sucl
an uprising?"
"Well, there are grounds for hoping
the negative. These lie in the innate
and hereditary hostility between the
| tribes, but chiefly in the lack of leader,
among the Crows. They have been Sc
long at peace with other tribes and hav
ing never had a war with the whites
none of their leaders has had an oppOr
| tunity to attesthis claim to supreme
command by the conduct of a campaign
| With Indians, IS with whites, exigencie:
make commanders, and the war path is
the road to craftsmanship, by the prin
ciple of natural selection. All the heredi
tary chiefs of the Crows are old and in
| capacitated or disinclined for fighting
The young men of the tribe are anXiOu:
| for war to give them each a chance tt
| come to the front as chief. Swordbearer
is the best known of these ambition:
| young Crows; his influence is strong il
| favor of war, but his present promin
ence in the tribe may be one of the
peace influences; it may cause the Othel
ambitious young men to oppose his hav
| ing a chance at this time to establish his
supremacy and their subordination b,
| that meanSo